Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.

Kat

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Registered: 09-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:30pm
I'm rolling & yelling this post into my DH (gosh, he is showering!!!!!!!!!)
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:30pm

I'm still trying to figure it out.

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Registered: 09-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:31pm
I'm off for a romantic evening with my hubby. I'm just waiting on the pizza delivery.

S.V.

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:31pm
No-- your attitude that it's not a double standard to believe that men should not "live a life of luxury" but that it's just fine for women (if you're going to tell me that that isn't your attitude but that of your family, then I'll ask you whether you'd go out and get a job and feel fine about it if your dh decides today that he wants to switch lives with you). It's also your attitude that it's OK for a person to spend her life "living in luxury." While I agree that *you* can do whatever you want and it doesn't really *bother* me, I want to teach *my* children that we have a responsibility to leave the world a better place by being a good person, but ALSO by doing something *above and beyond* being a good parent and spouse. I know. We don't feel the same about this. But this is MHO.
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Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:33pm
Have fun~
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:34pm
If dh wanted to switch roles, sure. I'd be happy to give him a chance to do this if that was his desire. Our marriage is based on compromise, give and take. Naturally I'd do it in a heartbeat for him! I'd truly miss being home, but I'd do it.

Well. I'm not going to change my attitude on "living in luxury" to fit your agenda. Agree to disagree there.

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Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:37pm
Will you be departing at approximately the same time MAT does? Funny how the TWO of you keep popping up together!
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Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:43pm
WHAT?? why do you say stuff like this? Is this sarcasim??? what am i missing here




Edited 10/3/2003 5:47:26 PM ET by silverunity

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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:47pm
As has been explained more than once, my $17K income was in 1997, AFTER a layoff, when i was working as a temp employee, PRIOR to being hired as a permanent employee as a typesetter. It was the $17K job that led to my changing career paths from secretarial to setting type.

I have discussed this numerous times, here and elsewhere on ivillage and the regulars on this board can verify it.

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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 5:53pm
yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of beautysmom/jraph, too, but this particular username isn't into all the militant SAHMisms for which BM/JR was infamous. However, this one also isn't as clever about sliding in the deadly dull, excruciating detail that Max could provide. She also uses better grammar; I alway thought Max faked the bad spelling, but her grammar was atrocious and clearly uncontrived.

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